Monthly Archives: June 2006

Scott Adams’ Readers’ Stories

Posted on by
Reply

Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip. He’s a guy who managed to hold down a steady job in the corporate world for six years whilst drawing his comic every day before work, and perhaps part of that whacky nature of not giving up has spilled into his blog which you can get to from dilbert.com, but is really found at dilbertblog.typepad.com. He posted some information about true events that have happened to him, being held at gunpoint four times and being mugged in other ways as well: it doesn’t give San Francisco in the 80′s a very good sell.
Anyway. The stories from readers are hilarious, starting with the knockout first one, from ‘Sheilah’:

I once pushed an ENTIRE HUMAN BEING out of my vagina.

He’s bigger now.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Sometimes I really dislike Japan

Posted on by
3

They just don’t seem to get it! A lot of people don’t like the idea of killing, for ‘scientific purposes’, the largest mammals on Earth: whales. The only scientific study I could imagine would be to see how many they can kill before they don’t recover.

David Attenborough has previous said:

…If whales could scream the industry would stop, for nobody would be able to stand it.

Then they give money to poor Caribbean nations for ‘fishing aid’. What is this, so that these countries create over-developed fishing industries that will be just outraged by the impact of whales eating their fish? It’s so false and underhand and just disgusts me. Can’t we show repeats of The Blue Planet on Japanese television continually until they beg us to stop and repent their horrible crimes. Japan and Norway’s tolls: 2,500 whales killed in the last twelve months. It’s disgusting.

WaPo: Pro-Whaling Nations Lose Early Vote
Guardian: Japan hits out at ‘polarised’ whaling council

Popularity: 1% [?]

It’s so true.

Posted on by
1

Stepping out, everyone can see my face
All the things I can’t erase from my life
Everybody knows
Standing out so you won’t forget my name
That’s the way we play this game of life
Everybody knows

-Dixie Chicks: Everybody Knows

Popularity: 1% [?]

To Modify Margaret Mead Slightly

Posted on by
Reply

Thanks to the internet, I think for the first time young people are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. It’s such a powerful thing that we can create our own history, see the news unfold in real-time and contribute our own information and thoughts to unfolding stories before they are stymied by those that would like a more agreeable daily roundup.

Popularity: 1% [?]